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(Preview) Bonus Episode 141 – The Frankfurt School and the CIA w/ Gabriel Rockhill
A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get to it and hours and hours of bonus content byup at the $5 level. Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Check out his earlier...
(Preview) Bonus Episode 140 – The rise of China’s rural influencers w/ Amanda Yee
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(Preview) What the Huck?! – Translation, Commodification and Hegemony w/ Sina Rahmani
*I was invited to join What the Huck?! to talk translation, Eurocentrism, and the 3% problem. This is roughly half of the conversation. Check out What the Huck?! on your podcatcher to download the entire episode or watch it...
(Preview) Bonus Episode 139 – The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy w/ Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (Pt.1)
Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. Friend of the podcast Max Ajl interviews him about his new book, (2021) A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it...
AER 112: BDS Boston makes a map and chaos ensues
*I was invited by friend of the podcast Justin Podur to discuss the very excellent work of * In June 2022, a small activist group in Boston created mapliberation.org, a project mapping primarily policing institutions in Massechussetts and their...
Sina Rahmani
The Host
Sina Rahmani completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a translator, scholar, and writer. His work has been published in the PMLA, Iranian Studies, boundary 2, Radical History Review, and Public Books.
He does this podcast in his spare time, of which he has plenty. He has never gone fishing.
Wag the Dog (1997) w/ Ben Norton
*I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton'sMultipolaristato discussWag the Dog,an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.* The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the...